Oh the insanity!

My homework life has become nutty, which in turn renders my life non existent. Sleep is for the weak, but can I at least be warm? My part-time-pay for-my-cell-phone-job is asking too many hours of me, my Nonna sees this as a repeat of my Zio Mitch's past - he ended up with high blood pressure. I don't know if I'm becoming agoraphobic or I've had too much coffee but that makes me nervous. The 8th of December is my upcoming reprieve, I'll be done this semester. Its both too far away and too close - that depends on whether or not I'm thinking about my schedule really. See you all in December! In the mean time check out Paul's vlog.

I had a list

of blog I wanted to make and right now I just cant find it, honestly I just can't remember where the heck I wrote it down! So I'm in the process of looking and I will find it because the topics will make up for my lack of blogging recently. I honestly meant to make a third blog in September and three this month to make up for 0 in August (I am after all trying to uphold a standard of two posts a month), but its looking like my blog debt is actually going to accumulate more X_X. I however am better at keeping up on my blog here than High Levels of Awesome, or Stuff and Rabbits, so there. That's right I went there.

Get your booing tomatoes ready because I still haven't beat FFXIII. I've made it to the third disk and since the game play changes I became torn between wanting to press on and just finish for story or do some epic leveling on Grand Pulse. I love the crystarium, and since I haven't played chronologically through the final fantasy games it is new to me an oh so fun. Not that I don't like the old school ways of leveling, the crystarium is just insanely cool. However it is kind of overwhelming, the sort of overwhelmed that you want to conquer not run away from. So I have finally decided to push through and finish the story for the sake of my co-player who is the "plays games for story plot" person, and if I go back to it one day I will be true to myself and fill up the crystarium for my favourite characters.

wishful thinking is so...fulfilling

Lastly I'd like to take a moment and mention Supernatural, it is so addictive. It sort of filled my reading week, always on in the background behind homework, and the addiction spread to the rest of my family. We really are TV people, we like to watch TV and movies and screw all you "I don't really watch TV" people because you are sort of excluding a means of transferring culture. Oh and I count picking specific shows and Anime as TV watching, even if you aren't seeing it in real time. Hypocrites! Anyway watch supernatural however you please the sixth season is on TV right now (Wednesday nights at 10pm on Space) so get watching.

I see you've noticed the face lift o_O

That's right last night I revamped the look of this page, its a little more robot like, but not quite what I envision. It'll get there... eventually!

SO back to bento boxes, for now were just going to start with the Jbox.com bento section. So bento boxes are the Japanese way of making lunch boxes attractive. They can get incredibly fancy and be made of incredibly fine woods and hand painted with matching chop sticks. They generally have two tears but can go up to four or more for special occasion serving ware like new years. You can get a store bought bento from convince stores and train stops but a lunch that is really special is moms beautifully crafted golden example of domesticity hand made lunches, complete with all the cute bells and whistles like having your veggies cut into little hello kitties. In Japan a girl can show a cool boy just how much she likes him by presenting him with her top notch bento skills at lunch time, you know how gramma says "the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach". The number 1 staple in bento is rice there is alot of it to eat with the other stuff being meat and vegetables (the vegetables can be pickled) and onigiri. Onigiri are rice balls! a ball of sticky rice, either in the shape of a circle, triangle with rounded edges, or a scoop. The circle and triangle have a bit of seaweed to act as hand holder and can be stuffed with a piece of pickled vegetable or something along those lines. Moral of the story is mass of beautiful deliciousness. So for more info on the contents of a bento click here, and go to google images to see some beautiful bento lunches, and to order some inexpensive bentos go to J-box (if you are over 18 and don't mind some pervy otaku stuff popping up everywhere J list is the place for you).

Long time coming!

Hey internets I'm still alive, and no one died on the way. I realize, that for the month of August I have sort of been MIA. Don't worry my co-workers did not feed my legs to a bear so I could never leave. I can't say I'm in one piece I've been much more scatter-brained than normal - seriously I went to turn off a TV that was already off. I ended up wasting efforts by having to push a button twice that I didn't need to push in the first place, how silly. Also, tre merde (Georgia Nicholson may also add poo).

Too sum up my last few week at Algonquin Park: Fuwar! It was crunchy, I had a lot to finish and SO little time but it happened and MAN did I learn alot. I would never trade what I learned this summer for anything and I want to continue to increase my knowledge so I'll do what I can to get back ^_^. But come to the end of my contract I'm an unemployed bum again -.- so back to the land of job hunting it is!

Job hunting really is not so bad, except for the million times that one has to fill out exactly the same information that is on their resume. We put so much work into a resume so its so unfair to have to go through all that work again, and in such an unrefined manner. I for one strive to have an attractive resume especially colour wise. BUT it must be done an we shall press on. I swear if I get a part time job that does not have a definite end of contract or anything of the sort I will absolutely not quit until I head off to Japan.

Oh Japan you wonder? I don't know if I've actually mentioned this but I will seriously be going to Japan to teach English for two or three years once I finish school. If I'm going to be off getting a college diploma after Uni then it won't be for some time but that just gives me the time to learn some basic Japanese ^_^.

Well other than considering my future and looking into my short term job goals I have been full force getting preliminary planning done for my new favourite expense, Anime North. We are taking on a monster of three cosplays, Black Butler, Full Metal Alchemist, and Gurren Lagann. We want to enter the skit competition and costume competition, in other words we have a lot of work ahead of us! But its SO worth it for the fun, community, and awesome.

My last bit of news is the upcoming aspect of School (Monday hello?). Actually I don't have anything interesting to say, just that I'm excited cus I love all my classes, well as I have not been in any of them yet, the idea of my classes. It's going to rock! I hope ^_^

Other wise I'm back on the Anime block (um yay much?) and my love of bento boxes has returned, hopefully that's the topic of my next blog. Anyhoo, Goodnight!

Here Moosey Moosey Moosey

Hey Interweb, so I'm half way through my north land adventure and so far I have seen a total of 5 moose, that being one cow with a baby and another cow with twin babies (so maybe it is three in a half if you only count babies a half a moose lol). No bulls to report however. Although I probably just miss them every time I drive by a moose jam (a moose jam is alot like a traffic jam, but there are people stopped on the side of the road and driving super slow to see a wild animal not some horrible act of city traffic). I've also seen two bears and one deer. There are supposed to be alot of wolves around right now too but the closest I have come to getting to see a wolf is fresh poo. Also there have been cougar sightings (!) which is pretty darn sweet. And birds of prey - very exciting.

Ambition has its costs and I'm very busy with my projects but I wouldn't have it any other way. So signing off from the unpredictable weather of hasting/algonquin highlands! See you b-dot kids this weekend ^_^

During Heat waves Road Kill is Like Barbeque for Scavenger Animals

Today is was feeling like well past 40 degrees, the sun was beating down hard, and I was chasing butterflies! Very fun I will in no way put down the awesome that is catching (or if you are a fool like myself and can't catch, photograph) butterflies. The only down side, super humid heat and a shit ton of deer fly.

Deer Fly... ugh. Everyone goes on about how the heat will kill off all the bugs, and that they aren't so bad this year. Tell that to my epidermal tissue, it is not believing. Why wont those bastards die by the sun? I'm taking an antihistamine to keep from scratching like a crack head, but I look like I have a flesh eating skin disease! So not cool, and the worst part is there's nothing I can do about it. They are immune to bug repellent!

So I don't mind the hot, hot is pretty sweet, it makes swimming epic! I just can't get away from the deer fly :(

That's all for now, except one more thing, Rodney the Cat is super Cute, photos to follow at some point. Also some butterlfy pics

Hail From The North Lands!

Hey there internet! I’ve been up North since Thursday night, and man does time go by slowly, I feel like I’ve been here for weeks! It is probably because I’ve done so much these last five days. It took us all day to get here, almost 4 hours plus stopping and all that. I wasn’t settled till 7:00 and we left around 12:30/1:00. Friday I took a ride out to the park to see how long my commute would be (it’s like 45 min going ten over the speed limit, but the few cars that I see usually pass me going like 30 over). The road is long and full of trees hiding wildlife and there aren’t too many roads but I bet that makes getting lost so much worse since the roads are so long. Anyway, after that we went into Bancroft to scope it out, it takes half an hour to get there (everything is so spaced out around here) and when we get back I did legit yard work. I don’t have a yard, I have a grass patch at home. This is a 5acre property, mowing the lawn is an adventure. But we get stuff done, mowing and fixing up the porch space, and getting the burn pile going, and dinner all on top of babysitting two little cousins – so ya more yard work that I’ve ever had to do (to my Gramma – you always have your yard pristine, there’s never a whole lot to do at one time). So its always hard to fall asleep right away in a new place, but man! When dawn comes at like 5:30 it makes me want to cry a little, however I can get through it, now. Saturday was a great Garage sale day! We were in town for hours checking out the yard sales that toughed out the rain and running errands- very fun I got a few books and a copy of galactic civilisation for 5 bucks (!). Sunday I painted a name plate sign for the one day grave of a friend’s of my aunts (He has good ideas and has already picked out his “head stone” which is a pretty wrought iron sign and another stainless steel sign. It is a little grim but it made the guy happy and that’s what counts. Later we went out for a boat ride, in the drizzle and ran out of gas, then, the battery propeller started to die out so we ended up having to paddle! And when I say we I mean me and my cousin’s brother in-law, haha. It was a fun experience. And on to today! I was up at 6 (my new rising time, ugh) and had my first day of work at Algonquin Park. Not much to report there it was all orientation but I get my own desk! And, on my way to work there was the cutest baby raccoon crossing the road, I didn’t see it’s mother but it seemed alright. With that I sign off to sleep cus I have to be up at 6 again tomorrow 

Stay tuned! Updates ahead!
p.s I have a mobile internet stick, blogs are hopefully not too far behind!